Dr Ben Murtagh
BA, MA, PhD (London)
Overview
Department of South East Asia
Senior Lecturer in Indonesian and Malay
Centre of South East Asian Studies
Member, Centre of South East Asian Studies
Centre for Media and Film Studies
Associate Member, Centre for Media and Film Studies
Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies (CCLPS)
Member
Centre for Gender Studies
Member
- Name:
- Dr Ben Murtagh
- Email address:
- bm10@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- 020 7898 4248
- Address:
- SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 466
- Office Hours:
- Tuesdays 11:00-12:00 / Thursdays 12:00-13:00
Teaching
Programmes Convened
Courses Taught
- Directed Readings in Indonesian
- Indonesia on Screen
- Indonesian Language 1
- Indonesian Language 1 (Postgraduate)
- Indonesian Literature up to 1942
- Indonesian Literature: Literature of the Revolution
- Indonesian Literature: Writing in the Age of the New Order (Masters)
- Jawi and the Malay Manuscript Tradition (Masters)
- Modern Indonesian Literature (since 1942)
- Modern Literature in Malay
- Pre-Modern historical Texts of Java, Bali and the Malay World in English Translation (Masters)
- Sex and the City in South East Asian Film
- South East Asia on Film
- Traditional Malay Literature
PhD Students supervised
- Joshua Black, Working title: Queer Identities in Modern Vietnamese Literature and New Media
- M Arif Rokhman, A post-colonial reading of the works of Forum Lingkar Pena (FLP) from 2000 to 2007
- Sangeeta Bhardwaj, Malaysia/Singapore Literature in English: Representations of the Malaysian Punjabi Community
Expertise
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Available for
- TV
- Radio
- Press
- Briefings
- Special Study Programmes
- Short Term Consultancy
- Long Term Consultancy
Regional Expertise
- South East Asia
Country Expertise
- Indonesia
- Malaysia
Languages
- Malay-Indonesian
- Portuguese
Publications
Edited Books
Braginsky, Vladimir and Murtagh, Ben, eds. (2007) The Portrayal of Foreigners in Indonesian and Malay Literatures: Essays on the Ethnic "Other". Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press.
Book Chapters
Murtagh, Ben (2011) 'Bangkok's beautiful men: images of Thai liberality in an Indonesian gay novel.' In: Jackson, Peter A., (ed.), Queer Bangkok: 21st century markets, media, and rights. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, pp. 163-180.
Murtagh, Ben (2007) 'Portrayals of British Individuals in Malay Literature.' In: Braginsky, V. and Murtagh, B., (eds.), The Portrayal of Foreigners in Indonesian and Malay Literatures Essays on the Ethnic "Other". The Edwin Mellen Press, pp. 107-164.
Murtagh, Ben (2005) 'The changing images of Britain in traditional Malay literature.' In: Z.Ajamain, and N.Ahmad, , (eds.), Kesusasteraan tradisional Asia Tenggara; prosiding Seminar Antarabangsa Asia Tenggara ke-3. Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (Malaysia), pp. 103-136.
Articles
Murtagh, Ben (2011) 'Gay, lesbi and waria audiences in Indonesia: watching homosexuality on screen.' Indonesia and the Malay World, 39 (115). pp. 391-415.
Murtagh, Ben (2011) 'Coklat Stroberi: sebuah roman Indonesia dalam tiga rasa.' Jurnal Gandrung, 2 (1). pp. 45-72.
Murtagh, Ben (2011) 'Lesbi in the metropolis: fatal attraction in an Indonesian movie from the early 1990s.' Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs, 45 (1 & 2). pp. 95-132.
Murtagh, Ben (2010) 'Coklat Stroberi: an Indonesian romance in three flavours.' South East Asia Research, 18 (2). pp. 219-243.
Murtagh, Ben (2009) 'Indonesian Movie Gems.' the Jakarta Post, Weekender Magazine . pp. 30-31.
Murtagh, Ben (2008) 'Chocolate strawberry: an Indonesian film breaks new ground on the subject of teenage sexuality.' Inside Indonesia (93).
Murtagh, Ben (2007) 'Beautiful Men in Jakarta and Bangkok. The Pressure to Conform in a Recent Indonesian Novel.' South East Asia Research, 15 (2). pp. 281-99.
Murtagh, Ben (2006) 'Istana kecantikan: The First Indonesian Gay Movie.' South East Asia Research, 14 (2). pp. 211-30.
Murtagh, Ben (2004) 'Two poems commemorating Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee of 1887.' Jurnal Filologi Melayu, 11 . pp. 31-43.
Murtagh, Ben (2002) 'Syair Perang Inggeris Di Betawi: A Malay Account of the British Invasion of Java of 1811.' Indonesia and the Malay World, 30 (86). pp. 27-36.
